brickyard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of brickyard
Example Sentences
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"They are very small and it could have easily bitten someone and it seems he has been in the brickyard for about a month," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2021
His brother, Walter, operated brickyard No. 3 until it closed, in 1952.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
“This was basically all a skate park,” said Taylor Bruck, 30, who grew up in Kingston and whose great-great-grandfather worked at a brickyard in Glasco, 10 miles north.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2021
Heinz attended Duff’s Mercantile College in Pittsburgh and was a bookkeeper at his father’s Sharpsburg brickyard.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2019
The biggest was a drawing of the giant farm implement shed that Deere & Company was proposing to put up on the block where the old brickyard had been.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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